All posts tagged "John Kerry"

With Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz facing misleading Republican attacks on his service record in the Army National Guard, some political commentators are drawing comparisons to the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," a GOP smear campaign where Vietnam veterans attacked the service record of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

Speaking to Politico in an interview, Bob Shrum, an adviser to Kerry, outlined how significant these attacks might be — and how to defuse them.

When it came to Kerry, who received three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star, he said, "In the end, the attack didn’t matter, except — and this did matter — that it disturbed the campaign in the month of August. But by the time you got to Election Day, if you asked people, 'Could John Kerry be commander in chief?' Their answer was yes. They watched the first debate and they made a conclusion. I think it’s different this time. People have heard this stuff before, many of them, not the whole electorate. Walz’s record has been defended by a whole host of folks across the political spectrum. I don’t think this is going to go anywhere."...

Oil prices rose on Monday on continued violence in key crude producer Iraq, holding not far from last week's nine-month peaks, analysts said.

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl suffered harsh treatment at the hands of his Taliban captors, including long periods of solitary confinement, according to U.S. military officials who also said the soldier was struggling emotionally and had not yet called his parents.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry has agreed to testify on June 12 before a House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, resolving a contentious dispute with Republicans in Congress.